Dr Tilesius on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body. 301 
neath the chin, over the right breast and arm ; and, returning to 
the back, descended along the vertebral column to the sacrum. 
In this latter part of the course of the lightning, the skin was 
not cut, but only a little raised, and very red. Impressions of 
the same nature were seen across the arms ; and attested, as well 
as the rupture of the clothes, the zig-zag progress of the light- 
ning, which had passed alternately from the right side of the 
younger brother to the left side of the elder. It fixed upon the 
latter, on meeting with some pieces of metal that were in his 
waistcoat pocket : here it raised the skin upon a space about the 
size of the hand. After this, it descended upon the left part of 
the region of the pubis, and traversed the inner surface of the 
thigh, the ham and calf of the leg. A piece of steel, which the 
younger of the brothers carried in his fob, led the lightning to 
the region of the groin, where a space of the size of the piece was 
deprived of the skin, and affected with a deep wound. The 
breadth of the mark left by the lightning upon the different 
parts of the body was in general two inches ; the wounds were 
more extended and deeper at the intersections of this mark ; 
several of them were very painful, and suppurated abundantly. 
The skin had been rolled, in close folds, to the right and left, 
by the rapid passage of the lightning. The wounds did not 
bleed ; and all that had to be done, was to provide for the reno- 
vation of the skin destroyed. In a word, there was no indica- 
tion of any lesion of organs by fire or heat ; but the effect pro- 
duced might be compared to that which takes place when a ball 
grazes the surface of a limb. 
Dr Tilesius having assisted at the two first dressings, had all 
the leisure necessary for carefully examining the form and na- 
ture of the hurts ; he even took a sketch of them, which accom- 
panies his memoir. 
The brothers Teele, after having perfectly recovered them- 
selves, were affected with violent nausea, and vomited repeated- 
ly, when some cups of tea were given them to drink ; they threw 
up a little blood at first, as had happened to the one who had 
been killed. Notwithstanding the great extent of their wounds, 
and their being besides of a robust habit, they had no fever. 
The elder was perfectly deaf on the day of the accident ; but, 
on the following day he recovered his hearing to a certain de- 
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